Sex Tapes

Here is a headline from the Associated Press:

Girl seen on sex tape found safe

Here is one from CNN.com:

Search for sex tape victim

United Press International:

Girl on sex tape found, police seek man

Las Vegas Sun:

Girl in sex tape found unhurt, fugitive named suspect in assault

When Paris Hilton, Shannon Dougherty, Rob Lowe, Pamela Anderson et al, have sex and someone videotapes it, the result is very much something we can comfortably call a sex tape.

When a three year old child is raped and the rapist videotapes it, the result is not a sex tape. It is a recording of a child being raped. Raping children is a crime that frequently occurs in the U.S. One out of 4 children under the aged of sixteen are sexually molested in this country. Why the FUCK would anyone call a video of a child—A TODDLER—being horribly raped “a sex tape”?
Where is the sex?
These headlines are almost as sickening as the crime, itself. The fact that the media feel comfortable referring to this as a “sex tape” is a very good indication of why this crime against humanity is so widespread and under-punished. If you can think of a three year old child in the same sentence as “sex tape,” sweet jesus, you got problems no less worthy of incarceration than predators and pedophiles.
And people read this shit without batting an eyelash. I got a Johnny Cash song in my head for headline writers and pedohiles tonight:

You can run on for a long time,
Run on for a long time,
Run on for a long time,
Sooner, or later, God'll cut you down.
Sooner, or later, God'll cut you down.

Lookin dang forward to that.